A Minimalist Movie Poster from my TA: Prof Lockman

My TA in Tokyo came up with something pretty good for the ds106 3rd week assignments. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to connect his blog to the ds106 syndication machine.

I therefore took the opportunity to post his recent offering so that the students in Tokyo can learn how the syndication works. Further, Prof Lockman has been instructed to provide a tutorial as to how to produce such as his and the Four Icon Challenge I shared earlier.

It would certainly do his tattered soul a bit of good were some warm-hearted someone so compelled as to visit his little blog and attempt to read about his methods and so on.

My try at a minimalist movie poster. All¹ sorts of people have already done it. Although most don’t seem to be tagging with visualassignments57² it so that it aggregates under the assignment on the ds106 site. That’s going to make it harder for Jim to count every assignment by hand when he does the big data infographic design fest at the end of the course.

Process

I had a number of ideas. Most of them centered around putting the tux bow tie around things like the Walther PPK. I did that and didn’t like it. Things looked too cheesy.

To get the tux look, I started with a still from a Bond film and then ended up using the Polygonal Lasso Tool to trace the outlines. In the end I made the lines more angular and iconic. I added in some of the defining lines (to help define the bow tie and to illustrate the shirt split).